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"The constitution gives all people the right to happiness. 

All you have to do is catch it yourself."

~Benjamin Franklin

Happy is a documentary about studying the measure of human happiness. Depression studies have long been underway, but it wasn't until the 90's that psychologists really started trying to measure happiness.

It really does grab your consciousness and pull it into the interesting and sometimes 'sad' reality that happiness ability is 50% genetic.

Another surprising find is that only 10% of our happiness is attributed to extrinsic factors such as job, status, income, possessions....

which leaves 40% to 'other' factors. And you know what they found those 'other' factors to be?

People's ability to recognize what isn't happy and make the change in their life, no matter how big or small.  Ironically enough for me, they used the example of a runner.  Something as small as changing up the course of your run now and then was shown to make a huge difference.  It's not that the change in the course made that person happier overall, but it was their innate ability to initiate spice in their life. Welcome change.  Do something a little different.

Change it up a lil and watch this 1 hr 15 min documentary that will inspire the smile within :)